Many people wonder why ballet dancers use turn-out in the first place, it's not a natural movement of the body, can put stress on ankles and knees, and is just so difficult! Turn-out actually not only helps dancers move faster in quicker steps such as petit and grand allegro, but it gives them a greater range of movement and motion. In the court of Louis the XIV, not only did men's fashions (in that day, men did the majority of theatre dancing) demand them to use turn out (their wide topped boots forced them to turn their legs out when they moved), but theaters in that day sat audiences only on one side, and dancers could really only move side to side, and were not allowed to turn their backs to the members of the audience.
I admire this little ballerinas tenacity... my favorite tactic is when kids literally try to place their own feet in first position, usually resulting in them falling over, but hey, if at first you don't succeed....!
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